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Data-driven Storytelling with Matthew Lynley

The Hoffman Agency

That exclamation from famous fictional detective and personal childhood role model Sherlock Holmes has often been used by proponents of data analysis, but it’s never been truer than now, a full 128 years after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published The Adventure of The Copper Beeches where that quote originates. More on the second in a bit.)

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Don’t Fear The Robot: Why AI Is Good For PR And Marketing

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

It’s not hard to envision the rows of self-checkouts in stores, corporate chatbots, and fleets of driverless trucks, because it’s already happening. That means creative work, like generating innovative ideas for programs, and like — storytelling. And the heart of public relations is in storytelling.

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Creative Storytelling: Picture This: It’s Not Just the Words – It’s What You Do with Them

Waxing UnLyrical

The great Brian Solis, who I had the pleasure of seeing live in 2013 as keynote speaker at the PRSA’s International Conference, recently published this article on LinkedIn about creative storytelling. Solis says that 550,000 LinkedIn members describe themselves as storytellers. Are you one of them? I still have my notes.).

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What Lies Ahead for Public Relations in 2018?

PRSay

Digital storytelling, social listening and native advertising will all dramatically increase in significance as well, even as blogs maintain an important role in disseminating information. Knowing how to work with big data will also become more important for PR pros. Look for more PR shops to say they’re “data driven.”.

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We Asked Today’s PR Influencers: What is #CreativePR?

Marketwired

Michelle Messenger Garrett is a public relations consultant , speaker and award-winning writer with more than 20 years of agency, corporate, startup and Silicon Valley experience. Creative PR is moving your storytelling to new levels by creating and sharing more interactive and visual content. . She holds a B.A. rebekahiliff.

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Six social media and digital communications trends for 2015

PR Conversations

The promise that ‘big data’ could automate organisational communications has proved a fallacy. A focus on online marketing of content has seen aggregation, ‘cut and paste’ copying, superficiality and promiscuous pitching of uninspiring ‘storytelling’ dominate at the expense of relevant, informed, and meaningful material.

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Cool Tools for the Curious PR Pro

Flatiron Communications

Pretty soon, I needed to find a new business prospect’s email, and I remembered this tool, which purportedly “uses big data and machine learning algorithms to find the email address of any professional in any company in one second.”

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